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Too many folks still believe that the Left is "playing" at politics and will soon come to their senses when they see how much everything has deteriorated. For better/worse it's going to clarify soon.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
08/10/2023 8:34 Comments ||
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With what is going on in Portland, Seattle and San Francisco, I feel better and better about my occasional trips to Cleveland.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
08/10/2023 11:20 Comments ||
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...If you have an interest in naval history, you owe it to yourself to be watching Drachinfels' stuff - he's smart, he's often funny, and he knows what he's talking about.
Mike
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08/10/2023 4:55 Comments ||
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If you enjoy military history and the lead up to the invasion of Poland in WWII you might find The Spies of Warsaw very interesting.
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If it's Recommendations Thursday, I would put in a double vote. First for 'War on the Run'. Second, 'Bust Hell Wide Open'.
Both biographies of 2 extraordinary men. The first Major Rogers and the second Nathan Bedford Forrest. Both well researched and meticulously documented and engaging reads about these American heroes, both true forces of nature.
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R. Cox, a lawyer of all people. I recommend this narrative to get a detailed look at the Java Sea campaign Dec. 1941 to March 1942.
Really whetted by appetite to learn more about the US Asiatic fleet pre WWII.
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RE: badanov
Yes, I am interested in the story of the battle of Guadalcanal.
I have seen the Battle 360 episodes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_360%C2%B0
I have seen the Lost Evidence episodes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Evidence
I have seen the Clash of Warriors 2002 episodes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395383/episodes
Vandegrift vs. Hyakutake
I saw them over-the-air in Los Angeles on Story TV 54.2:
https://storytelevision.com/schedule/
and on Quest TV 46.5:
https://www.questtv.com/schedule
The battle of Savo Island was always very unclear.
It appeared that the Japanese owned the night and so Bull Halsey would take the Enterprise aircraft carrier away from the islands to save the only carrier still in service after the USS Wasp was torpedoed.
I guessed the Japanese had great night optics and tactics.
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The battle of Savo Island was always very unclear.
It appeared that the Japanese owned the night and so Bull Halsey would take the Enterprise aircraft carrier away from the islands to save the only carrier still in service after the USS Wasp was torpedoed.
Admiral Ghormley was commander of the South Pacific Area when Savo took place.
[Hot Air] FBI Director Christopher Wray has a habit of lying before Congress.
This is in addition to his running the FBI like a secret police force determined to take down anybody the current regime dislikes.
None of this is news, but the evidence keeps piling up.
A month ago Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee grilled FBI Director Wray about the infamous "Richmond" document in which the Field Office there described "opportunities" to surveil Catholic churches and recruit Catholic priests and parishioners to spy on supposed "radical traditional Catholics," or what we like to call "Rad-Trads."
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Among the claims Wray made to the Committee was a pretty specific one: the Richmond memo was the work of FBI agents who worked alone and didn’t represent a larger movement within the FBI to attack political conservatives. Wray assured us that he was deeply concerned about this and was investigating how it happened.
That investigation was his excuse for withholding information, including redacting documents and not allowing the agents to speak to the committee. In itself, this is a bizarre standard, as there are no criminal charges involved and the Congress is charged with oversight of the Executive Branch. Is it now the case that any time the FBI or any other agency wants to hide information from Congress they can just claim they are “investigating” the matter and will tell Congress nothing?
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The Constitution forbids titles of nobility, but we do apparently have de facto nobility.
Posted by: Tom ||
08/10/2023 11:44 Comments ||
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/\ ..... we do apparently have de facto nobility.
Wealthy tech oligarchs, congress critters, Senior Executive Service (SES) gov't weenies, 51 former intelligence officials, Department of State foreign service appointees, big pharma and media moguls,.....etc, etc.
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Impeachment inquiries are what I would like to see.in the end. Hold Wray in contempt would be the start. This time, not as a negotiation. He can’t unlie. The lying is done. Same for Mayorkas and Garland. Hold them all in contempt. You could do the same for Biden with regards to his repeated use of Executive Orders to subvert the legislative process.
The next step for Garland, Wray and Mayorkas is a criminal referral. On the face that step appears useless but all three have broken the same law that usually empties out the bank account of folks like Roger Stone. Why are Administration clowns like these guys and Fauci not accountable through the same bogus process crime baloney that outsiders are? Make the DOJ provide status reports on the referrals. They obviously won’t do anything, but make them report their inaction and ambush all of them when they come up to Congress for other testimony. Lisa Monaco as well for the Hunter whitewash deal.
The entree to the process would be the impeachment inquiry. Subpoena the heck out of them until they bleed out. You can go right to the impeachment inquiry with Biden. Make the Dems defend his sorry carcass. Beat on them; defund them; be on offense for once in coordinated way that achieves victory and makes Rand Paul uncomfortable.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
08/10/2023 12:34 Comments ||
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/\ All of the above with aplomb, enthusiasm, and aggressive dispatch !
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/10/2023 12:44 Comments ||
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Took 'em all this time to figure that out?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/10/2023 13:11 Comments ||
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Is it now the case that any time the FBI or any other agency wants to hide information from Congress they can just claim they are “investigating” the matter and will tell Congress nothing?
Pretty clever, huh? Catch 22. The only thing Congress can do about it is to withhold all funding for the entire federal government until Wray is replaced by someone who will be a bit more forthcoming. Garland too. He needs to go.
And then, what do you know, the sonofabitch got fired.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/10/2023 13:17 Comments ||
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I am ashamed that today this could as easily have been written about America as about a Third World country doing its best to descend the scale of functionality. No need to read the piece, dear Reader — I posted it just to respond to the headline.
[Dawn] Most institutions treat the Constitution like a magazine we read to kill time, as opposed to a document that must be adhered to in letter and spirit.
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"Pakistan’s greatest tragedy isn’t that we have incompetent power structures or ‘elite capture’, so to speak, but that we are way too comfortable making the same mistakes again and again. "
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/10/2023 9:37 Comments ||
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For Americans, The Constitution is mythical weapon that can be transformed in the argument of a liberal into the basis for any progressive initiative. Want to kill a baby? Cite The Constitution. Want to groom a kindergartner? Cite The Constitution. The document has magical ShamWow disco ball powers to amaze. What can’t be done, though, is to read The Constitution. Studying and applying the actual Constitution deactivates the disco ball. That action silences the Fun Time animatronic band. The goal of our public education system is to keep the majority of our voting adults ignorant of how are system is running versus how it is supposed to run.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
08/10/2023 9:52 Comments ||
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^ "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball ShamWow disco ball"
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/10/2023 10:00 Comments ||
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"The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner’s manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world’s most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
[IsraelTimes] In rare interview, Syrian president accuses Israel of attacking his military, indicates ties strained between his government and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... said Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria were targeting the country’s military, and not Iranian forces, in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.
"The Israeli attacks are mainly directed against the Syrian army," Assad told Sky News Arabic in a rare interview.
"It’s an excuse that it’s an Iranian presence," Assad said, according to a translation of his comments by the Walla news site.
Israel’s military has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties in Syria against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The Israeli military says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for Iran-backed groups, chief among them Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah terrorist organization. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have targeted Syrian air defense systems. Israel does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria.
In the most recent attack, Israeli airstrikes targeted areas near Syria’s capital Damascus early Monday, killing four soldiers, Syria’s state-run SANA media outlet reported.
In the Sky News Arabic interview, his first talk with a foreign media outlet in months, Assad also indicated that his government’s ties to the Hamas terror group and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... have been strained by over a decade of civil war in Syria.
Hamas was headquartered in Damascus before the war but left Syria in 2012 after condemning the Assad government’s brutal suppression of protests.
Last year, Hamas said it had restored relations with the Syrian government after a visiting delegation met with Assad in Damascus.
But the Syrian president said that it was "too early" to speak of resuming normal ties with the terror group.
"For now, Hamas does not have offices in Damascus," he added in the interview.
Asked about mending ties with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , who has long supported rebel groups in Syria’s north, Assad said: "Why should I meet Erdogan? To drink refreshments?"
Erdogan and Assad had amicable relations in the 2000s but as war broke out, Turkey supported early rebel efforts to topple the Syrian president.
Erdogan reversed course in past years as Damascus clawed back, with Russian and Iranian support, much of the territory it had lost to rebels early in the conflict.
But Assad has long said he will not meet Erdogan unless Ottoman Turkish forces leave Syria, where they control parts of the north.
"Erdogan’s goal is to legitimize Ottoman Turkish occupation in Syria. This is why a meeting is not possible under Erdogan’s conditions," Assad said.
Syria’s war has killed a half-million people, maimed more than a million, left large parts of the nation destroyed and displaced half the country’s prewar population of 23 million. The fighting has mostly stalemated in the recent years.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Hot Air] FBI Director 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
